Begining around the time a child begins to communicate with common language they enter the stage of Intuitive Projective Faith. Perception and Meaning are 'ordered' through emotion and imagination. At this stage a child does not have the capacity for linear logical comprehension. Meaning and value are made through dreams, stories, symbols, and embodied experience.
Now moving beyond the amorphousness of primal faith, the child is learning to distinquish between self and other. There is a simultaneous capacity for magical thinking with an awareness of everyday life. In their attempt to distinguish and make meaning, children of this age appreciate mythic stories with obvious delineations between good and evil.
Perceptions of God evolve from the fluidness of primal faith towards the solidity of projective faith while retaining some of that initial preverbal is-ness. Images of Deity are often simultaneously anthropomorphic (impulsive) and non-anthropomorphic (primal).
